2QUESTION 2 OF 3
Answer & explanation
A "shot" is 50 ml (1.7 oz)
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
41,000,000
shots
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Start with Russia's population, about 145 million, so maybe 110 million adults. How often does the average adult have a shot of vodka? Not every day, but often. Call it once every three days.
- Russian adults
- ~110,000,000
- Shots per adult per day
- ÷ 3
- 110M ÷ 3
- ≈ 37,000,000
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Vodka retail sales, Russia
- ≈ 750,000,000 litres/year
- Per day
- ÷ 365 ≈ 2,050,000 litres
- One shot
- ÷ 0.05 litres
- ≈
- 41,000,000 shots/day
Reference cited by Fermi: Rosstat-based retail alcohol sales data reported by RBC
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